The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 97

I must show it to the king,’ he said, and when the king saw it he declared he would never rest until he had found the tree which bore it, even if he had to spend the rest of his life in visiting the islands that lay all round.

Who acts: I, king, tree, islands · What happens: show, say, see, declare, not rest, find · To what, where: trunk, king, tree, rest, islands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king, tree, islands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 show	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 show	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 show	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 declared	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 declared	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 declared	nsubj
20	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rest	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 rest	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 rest	advmod
24	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 declared	ccomp
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 found	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 rest	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 bore	nsubj
32	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tree	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bore	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
35	even	even	ADV	_	38 had	advmod
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bore	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 spend	mark
40	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rest	det
42	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spend	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 life	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 life	nmod:poss
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rest	nmod
46	in	in	SCONJ	_	47 visiting	mark
47	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 spend	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 islands	det
49	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 visiting	obj
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 lay	nsubj
51	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 islands	acl:relcl
52	all	all	ADV	_	53 round	advmod
53	round	round	ADV	_	51 lay	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	must	I	trunk	the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to king=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the king	trunk			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	declare speech: other	past	king				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not rest	would	king				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	past · perfect	king	the tree			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
7	bear	past	the tree	trunk			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	have a condition, not said to happen	past	king				tree rules
9	spend	to-infinitive	king not said here	the rest of king's life			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset
10	visit	gerund	king not said here	the islands			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Co-Agent
11	lay	present	the islands			round property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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